Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

I got on a bit of a rollercoaster looking into how Herbie Hancock used to make his tunes, and I remember a picture of Jean-Michel Jarre at one of his concerts and seeing the Memorymoog. When I heard the sound it I was like, 'Arrrgh, I really need that.'

I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.

My first bit of gear was a Roland JV-1010 sound module. I used to hammer the hell out of that.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

Blue Monday's distinctive intro was written on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.

All of those 10cc 'Not in Love'-type synthetic choir sounds on 'Replica' are all from the Omnisphere. We used a lot of that.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.